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by pirate
Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:43 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12660

Re: Using Midi

Well I've never met an organist with four hands, yet I see keys moving with no fingers on them, because of the technology... And just because the technology exists doesn't mean we have to use it all the time. It would scare the living daylights out of me to be playing, say, recorder, alongside somet...
by pirate
Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:45 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Terrors of the Triduum
Replies: 73
Views: 24569

Re: Terrors of the Triduum

Standing behind reader of Exodus reading, ready to seamlessly sing 'I will sing to the Lord' I realised I was still clutching 'Send forth your Spirit'; fortunately the composer had not altered the words in the Lectionary so we survived... and perhaps a little more adrenalin than usual gave the text ...
by pirate
Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:35 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Teaching the teachers
Replies: 46
Views: 16302

Re: Teaching the teachers

Well, our organist is not paid, if that's what you mean. But people have other things they do outside church to which they are committed and to be fair, she will be playing on Good Friday* and Easter Sunday, when she can be there. And we often sing without the organ (which is not well-positioned and...
by pirate
Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:07 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Teaching the teachers
Replies: 46
Views: 16302

Re: Teaching the teachers

In the days when I was a Tawny Owl, I once pointed out that if I took the Brownies canoeing with the level of attention to the rules and guidelines that the school put into a children's Mass, people would drown. It went down like a lead balloon. But the principle was: as a responsible leader I had t...
by pirate
Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:08 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Some days are diamonds
Replies: 2
Views: 2247

Some days are diamonds

I just thought I'd like to share today's liturgy. We sang 'My soul in stillness waits' (yes, I know, a but early, but we won't have an organist for the rest of Advent) as a Communion song (choir verses, everyone refrain), and for once our PP was so stunned we had a bit of silence after Communion, an...
by pirate
Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:11 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Annual James Crichton Memorial Lecture
Replies: 32
Views: 11353

Re: Annual James Crichton Memorial Lecture

Thanks, Tim.
Now: back on topic, everyone!
by pirate
Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:04 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Annual James Crichton Memorial Lecture
Replies: 32
Views: 11353

Re: Annual James Crichton Memorial Lecture

Oh, and er, what was the reason that SSG does not have days of music workshopping around the country... I wasn't there (was preparing Franciscans and friends for Advent by standing on a hill reading RS Thomas), so I didn't hear the answer, but I'd have said that the SSG isn't some vast fully-resour...
by pirate
Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:14 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Immaculata
Replies: 20
Views: 7751

Re: Immaculata

Faaaantastic! I see they're also having a collection for Christmas Greens which has prompted me to check the gas under the Brussels Sprouts...
by pirate
Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:04 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: presentation book for psalmists
Replies: 20
Views: 10755

Re: presentation book for psalmists

If bits of paper are in play, we have used those plastic A4 pocket books with a suitable image or liturgical colour of the day in the 'cover' pockets - a bit utilitarian, but straightforward and undistracting. Also have been known to use these folders for presiders at liturgies in college (and at Su...
by pirate
Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:53 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Director of Music, St Thomas of Canterbury, Canterbury
Replies: 0
Views: 4478

Director of Music, St Thomas of Canterbury, Canterbury

The Catholic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is looking for a Director of Music/Organist: • to play the organ at Saturday 6 pm (Vigil Mass) and Sunday 11 am • to direct and rehearse 11 am choir • to provide and encourage a high standard of Liturgical Music within the Parish St Thomas' church is si...
by pirate
Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:24 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Carol Services
Replies: 9
Views: 3193

Re: Carol Services

contrabordun wrote:... and undergraduate organ scholars and choir members liking to play at being Kings...


Had to read that twice. Earlier mentions of nativity plays had me thinking along quite different lines. :shock:
by pirate
Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:22 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organists and communion
Replies: 18
Views: 6486

Re:

Once upon a time, in a parish far, far away, on big occasions two of the EMs of HC used to come up to the choir gallery so the choir didn't have to fight their way through the crowds and the music could begin quite quickly, if the organist was at the front of the 'queue'. In the same parish when the...
by pirate
Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:11 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Vidi Aquam
Replies: 17
Views: 8385

Re: Vidi Aquam

Brazenly off topic here... When we had the Bishop in to bless the new lift to the parish hall, the choir stood on the stairs all set to sing 'God goes up with trumpet loud'; however before the main business the PP diverted the Bishop into the refurbished loo-for-people-with-disabilities. I murmured ...
by pirate
Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:38 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Litany of Saints
Replies: 13
Views: 5865

Re: Litany of Saints

We did it once with extended procession around the church, incensing various saints' altars as we went. Much appreciative comment. (Not that we did it for the appreciative comment!) I may try it this year in my new parish.
by pirate
Tue May 27, 2008 6:27 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical postures
Replies: 2
Views: 1338

Re: Liturgical postures

Actually, when I was a server I used to watch the hands of celebrants (as in 'like the eyes of a serving girl on the hands of her mistress'). Never failed to twitch, relax or contract (the hands, that is, not me) at the end of the silence after Communion, so I could be ready to move with the book......